And that is a very noble cause. On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Lina Srivastava <l...@linasrivastava.com> wrote:
> "There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude > out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in > no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists have lost > their lives in the course of their job, but the truth is that courage is > truly contagious -- journalists know this and hope that follow-on > coverage will help protect them from retribution. > > Silence in the face of wrongdoing is corrosive. It will eat you alive > if you let it. =/" > > Thanks for that. Griffin. Just putting a good word in for documentary > filmmakers and investigative journalists who also put their lives on > the line, to shape, frame, and communicate these stories and set a > stage for activists to do their end of the job. I work with a number > of them who don't think of themselves as heroes, but are just driven > to do this work through a sense of social justice. > > Lina > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:19 PM, LilBambi <lilba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> --snip-- >> There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude >> out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in >> no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists have lost >> their lives in the course of their job, but the truth is that courage is >> truly contagious -- journalists know this and hope that follow-on >> coverage will help protect them from retribution. >> >> Silence in the face of wrongdoing is corrosive. It will eat you alive >> if you let it. =/ >> --snip-- >> >> You got that right! >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Griffin Boyce <griffinbo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Tom O wrote: >>>> So it's now become about the "heroism" of the journalists and not >>>> Snowden and mass govt surveillance. Right. >>> There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude >>> out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in >>> no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists have lost >>> their lives in the course of their job, but the truth is that courage is >>> truly contagious -- journalists know this and hope that follow-on >>> coverage will help protect them from retribution. >>> >>> Silence in the face of wrongdoing is corrosive. It will eat you alive >>> if you let it. =/ >>> >>> ~Griffin >>> >>> -- >>> "Cypherpunks write code not flame wars." --Jurre van Bergen >>> #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR: sa...@jabber.ccc.de >>> >>> My posts, while frequently amusing, are not representative of the thoughts >>> of my employer. >>> >>> -- >>> Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. >>> Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: >>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >>> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >>> compa...@stanford.edu. >> -- >> Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. >> Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, >> change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at >> compa...@stanford.edu. > > > > -- > Lina Srivastava > -- > linasrivastava.com | twitter | linkedin > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
